Lightbulb Ensemble plays Mikrokosma

Lightbulb Ensemble (Oakland/Santa Cruz) performs on custom-built metallic and wooden bar instruments, built and tuned by ensemble director Brian Baumbusch after years of immersion into Balinese gamelan and its music. The ensemble’s music uses the intricate, interlocking rhythms of Balinese gamelan, filtered through the lenses of 1970s Downtown minimalism and the tuning and instrument-building tradition of Harry Partch. They will perform their evening-length work Mikrokosma, co-composed by Baumbusch and Wayne Vitale, for the first time in Santa Cruz.